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Welcome to our March 30th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
On our menus this week are:
ONE Addition By Subtraction Appetizer;
ONE Fake History Slice;
ONE Toasting With Broodskis Dessert; and
SIX Leverets By Levering Riff Offs.
Think Good, It’s Good Friday. Roll back the rock, rise up, and rejoice in the solving!
Piece Of Cake Appetizer:
Addition of words by subtraction of letters
Add a letter to the end of something people celebrate, forming a new word that was also the name of an erstwhile airlines.
Delete the first letter of this new word to form a synonym of the result of “backpaddling”... in a canoe for instance.
Delete the first letter of this result to form the surname of a Trump pal.
Delete the first letter of this result to form a word for a bird that is a homophone of a word in the title of a song with lyrics based on the Bible.
What are these four words and the name for something people celebrate?
Fake History Slice:
Karl and Quayle on the campaign trail
(Note: The following puzzle is based on fake history... that is, fake news from the past.)
Karl Rove was an Austin-based Republican campaign consultant to President George H. W. Bush during Bush’s run for re-election in 1992.
Bush fired Rove early that year for planting a negative story about his rival, the campaign’s chief fundraiser. Rove’s political “counsel” included dirty tricks, deceptive talking points and misleading messaging.
In May of 1992, just as the campaign was rounding the corner toward the homestretch, Vice President Dan Quayle chided Murphy Brown, a TV sitcon character portrayed by Candice Bergen, for opting to have a child outside of wedlock.
Getting less publicity, however, was Quayle’s criticism of a trailer for the 1987 movie “Dragnet,” which portrayed anti-pornography moral crusaders in a negative light.
To prove his point, Quayle inserted his video cassette of the trailer into his VCR and paused the tape at the lewdest images, then took out his Kodak Land camera and repeatedly took pictures of each of the most explicit freeze-frames.
The vice president then sent copies of each bawdy image to the editors of the Huntington Herald Press, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis News, Arizona Republic and other Central Newspapers, Inc. journals owned by his grandfather Eugene Pulliam.
Quayle strongly “suggested” that the editors publish his pictures of the risque freeze-frames.
A newspaper headline on a story documenting Rove’s and Quayle’s activities that year read:
Rove postured; Dan pans Dragnet’s teaser, rephotographs
What does this headline have to do with a particular holiday?
Riffing Off Shortz And Levering Slices:
Bunnies gone postal!
Will Shortz’s March 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Jim Levering, reads:
Name a small but well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation.
This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words that name distinctive characteristics of bunnies. What city is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Levering Slices read:
ONE:
Name a small but not-at-all-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 8,000), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Name a smaller and even less-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 200), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Both towns are in New England.
The larger town is the name of a groundbreaking bunny. The letters in the smaller town, combined with the four letters in the two states’ postal codes, can be rearranged to form a 7-letter word associated with bunnies and a 2-word, 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with a particular bunny.
What are these two towns? What is the name of the groundbreaking bunny? What are the word associated with bunnies and the jocular title?
TWO:
Name a moderately populous but well-known New England city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, begins with a pair of letters that, when spoken aloud, sound like a part of the writing portion of the SAT test. These two letters are followed by a mathematical term that might be an answer on the vocabulary section of the SAT.
What city is it?
THREE:
Name a quite populous and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words: a fish and something shaped somewhat like a fish.
What city is it?
Hints: A song was written about the city. The somewhat fish-shaped something is one half of a symbol.
FOUR:
Name a large suburban U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Change the first letter in the city.
This string of letters, reading from left to right, forms the former spelling of a token that allows tourists to make tracks all across a particular continent.
What city is it?
FIVE:
Name a large and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Delete the last two letters of the city. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells a large and well-known U.S. city. What city is it?
SIX (Bonus Riff-off)
Name a college town in the near geographic middle of a midwestern state, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Add an “n” somewhere in the middle, but not exactly in the middle. This string of seven letters, reading from left to right, spells... oops, sorry, I forgot what it spells. What city is it?
Barflies And Ducklings Dessert:
My brooder’s peeper
Name a 3-word toast a bunch of brooding barflies might make. Add a “y” to the end of the second word and add the words “on ducklings when” between the first and second words to name something you might see in a brooder.
What is the brooding barflies’ toast?
What might you see in a brooder?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Welcome to our March 30th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
On our menus this week are:
ONE Addition By Subtraction Appetizer;
ONE Fake History Slice;ONE Toasting With Broodskis Dessert; and
SIX Leverets By Levering Riff Offs.
Think Good, It’s Good Friday. Roll back the rock, rise up, and rejoice in the solving!
Appetizer Menu
Piece Of Cake Appetizer:
Addition of words by subtraction of letters
Add a letter to the end of something people celebrate, forming a new word that was also the name of an erstwhile airlines.
Delete the first letter of this new word to form a synonym of the result of “backpaddling”... in a canoe for instance.
Delete the first letter of this result to form the surname of a Trump pal.Delete the first letter of this result to form a word for a bird that is a homophone of a word in the title of a song with lyrics based on the Bible.
What are these four words and the name for something people celebrate?
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Fake History Slice:
Karl and Quayle on the campaign trail
(Note: The following puzzle is based on fake history... that is, fake news from the past.)
Karl Rove was an Austin-based Republican campaign consultant to President George H. W. Bush during Bush’s run for re-election in 1992. Bush fired Rove early that year for planting a negative story about his rival, the campaign’s chief fundraiser. Rove’s political “counsel” included dirty tricks, deceptive talking points and misleading messaging.
In May of 1992, just as the campaign was rounding the corner toward the homestretch, Vice President Dan Quayle chided Murphy Brown, a TV sitcon character portrayed by Candice Bergen, for opting to have a child outside of wedlock. 
Getting less publicity, however, was Quayle’s criticism of a trailer for the 1987 movie “Dragnet,” which portrayed anti-pornography moral crusaders in a negative light. 
To prove his point, Quayle inserted his video cassette of the trailer into his VCR and paused the tape at the lewdest images, then took out his Kodak Land camera and repeatedly took pictures of each of the most explicit freeze-frames. The vice president then sent copies of each bawdy image to the editors of the Huntington Herald Press, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis News, Arizona Republic and other Central Newspapers, Inc. journals owned by his grandfather Eugene Pulliam.
Quayle strongly “suggested” that the editors publish his pictures of the risque freeze-frames. A newspaper headline on a story documenting Rove’s and Quayle’s activities that year read:
Rove postured; Dan pans Dragnet’s teaser, rephotographs
What does this headline have to do with a particular holiday?
Riffing Off Shortz And Levering Slices:
Bunnies gone postal!
Will Shortz’s March 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Jim Levering, reads:
Name a small but well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words that name distinctive characteristics of bunnies. What city is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Levering Slices read:
ONE:
Name a small but not-at-all-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 8,000), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Name a smaller and even less-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 200), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Both towns are in New England.
The larger town is the name of a groundbreaking bunny. The letters in the smaller town, combined with the four letters in the two states’ postal codes, can be rearranged to form a 7-letter word associated with bunnies and a 2-word, 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with a particular bunny.What are these two towns? What is the name of the groundbreaking bunny? What are the word associated with bunnies and the jocular title?
TWO:Name a moderately populous but well-known New England city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, begins with a pair of letters that, when spoken aloud, sound like a part of the writing portion of the SAT test. These two letters are followed by a mathematical term that might be an answer on the vocabulary section of the SAT.
What city is it?
THREE:Name a quite populous and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words: a fish and something shaped somewhat like a fish.
What city is it?Hints: A song was written about the city. The somewhat fish-shaped something is one half of a symbol.
FOUR:
Name a large suburban U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Change the first letter in the city.
This string of letters, reading from left to right, forms the former spelling of a token that allows tourists to make tracks all across a particular continent. What city is it?
FIVE:
Name a large and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Delete the last two letters of the city. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells a large and well-known U.S. city. What city is it?SIX (Bonus Riff-off)
Name a college town in the near geographic middle of a midwestern state, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Add an “n” somewhere in the middle, but not exactly in the middle. This string of seven letters, reading from left to right, spells... oops, sorry, I forgot what it spells. What city is it?
Dessert Menu
Barflies And Ducklings Dessert:
My brooder’s peeper
Name a 3-word toast a bunch of brooding barflies might make. Add a “y” to the end of the second word and add the words “on ducklings when” between the first and second words to name something you might see in a brooder.
What is the brooding barflies’ toast?
What might you see in a brooder?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Haven't even looked at the puzzles yet, but just LOVE the 'bunnies' gif (assume that it's a gif!) Have you ever had a moving one in P! before?
ReplyDeleteHaving spent a good three hours now on the new stuff, I've managed to do everything except Riffs #1 and 5. Worked a LONG time on #1, but can simply not make anything at all work out. Most frustrating. Just have no idea on #5, even after going through city lists...nothing seemed possible at all!
ReplyDeleteGood work, VT. I thought the Dessert was my toughest puzzle this week, but I also thought the Fake History Slice was a close second.
DeleteAs for the Riff-offs:
#1 may be easier to solve if you were able to solve the "Bonus Puzzle #4" that I posted over on Blaine's blog this past week.
#5 is one of those "unfair" puzzles that does involve "a trick."
Glad you are enjoying the animated bunny images. I have done a few of these in the past, but this week I perhaps went a bit overboard.
LegoWhoIsAnotherBunnyGoingOverboardOnWatershipDown
Yeah, LegoBun, and I hadn't even seen the even CUTER one when I put on the first post, of the two little white baby bunnies snuggling. I just stared at that one for a long time!
DeleteI actually thought the Dessert was very easy; not sure what that says about me.
ReplyDeleteMy answer for #5 did seem bogus to me at first, but now Lego has convinced me it's correct.
Too bad the "opioid crisis" isn't as easy to solve as #3.
I'm making some associative leaps between #5 and #2; I'll see if
I can get the tangents to intersect by Wednesday.
Similarly, I've got some vague ideas about the Fake News Slice, but am having trouble lining up the dots.
The Appetizer was no sweat.
"I actually thought the Dessert was very easy; not sure what that says about me"... What that says about you, Paul, is that "You is a genius!"
DeleteBogus = Tricky
I did not think Riff #3 was that easy. The Appetizer, sure, but not Riff #3.
a cap(a)city and the name of a cap(a)city?
You might finds clues to the solution of the FNS in the rotogravure section of the newspaper.
LegoRotoGravureRooter
LegoGravure, you just convinced ME (speaking of convincing) that I do have the correct answer for the Fake History slice. I hadn't been quite sure, previously.
DeleteI guess I lucked out on Riff #3.....having perused lists of cities, suddenly my eye fell on the right thing, and bingo, I knew I had the answer. I had known #4 right away (more or less) because I have USED one of those things (with the later spelling.)
Am STILL frustrated by #s 1 and 5. I was literally running over famous bunnies (not literally, of course) in my mind while falling asleep.
I hope I don't act as if I think I'm a genius; rather, I was thinking that my ability to quickly home in on the 3-word toast was an indication of an inordinate familiarity with Guinness (and I don't mean Alec).
DeleteAt the risk of revealing too much, I'm presenting this now, because it was some trouble finding it, and I'm afraid I'll misplace it before Wednesday.
Happy(or perhaps I should say Good)Friday everyone!
ReplyDeleteJust checked Puzzleria! for the first time today here in beautiful Ft. Walton Beach, and already I've solved the Appetizer and the Dessert(right away, I might add; wonder what that says about me?), but there's obviously a lot more work to be done, and I'm actually too tired to mess with it anymore this evening. Tomorrow we return home, and of course Sunday will be Easter. It may take me another couple of days before I can get back to these puzzles, but of course, as usual I welcome any and all hints you may provide, Lego(and these Riff-Offs look like the toughest ones yet, so be ready!). Great places to eat in Ft. Walton, BTW. Just had the best fried chicken I ever ate(not counting Lee's in Jasper), at a place with an unusual name: Blotula(I think). I also recommend McGuire's Irish Pub and Olive Garden, should any other regulars on this blog choose to visit Ft. Walton and neighboring Destin, FL. You won't regret it! We'll be coming back later this summer, so I'll keep you posted as to when exactly. Great place, especially for staying in a condo by the beach, as my family and I do!
I just added a sixth bonus Riff-Off puzzle slice.
ReplyDeleteA few hints for some of the others:
FHS:
"I love a puzzle!"
ROSALS:
Riff-off #1:
(Hats off to anyone who solves this puzzle. it borders on the unfair.)
You gotta think outside the hutch... outside, where cottontails and ears are a part of attire, not critters.
The two towns are in New England states staring with the same letter. One word in the answer is fowl.
Riff-off #5:
The large and well-known U.S. city in the question is a capital city. The large and well-known U.S. city in the answer is a capital city also.
LegoSaysDon'tForgetToTrySolvingTheBonusRiffOffPuzzle
Well, I just solved the Bonus #6 RIff (it's cute), but that #1 and #5 are driving me stark, raving mad. The additions of the hints just make things even MORE impossible. NOTHING WORKS. (I thought I had an answer for #5, but it doesn't obey the puzzle's directions.) I've gone through so many lists of New England towns, I'm dizzy by now. There IS no town named Playboy!!! Not to mention a 10-letter town of the correct population that has a 'fowl' connection.
DeleteVT,
DeleteSorry for a perhaps confusing hint(s).
For Riff #1, it is not the 10-letter town that has the "fowl" connotation, it is the second word in the 2-word, 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with one particular bunny. The word with the "fowl" connotation, appropriate to the present season, lays eggs.
The towns are in Maine and Massachusetts. The larger town is the last name of a groundbreaking bunny.
The 7-letter word associated with bunnies is an article of apparel often associated with Halloween.
I think you'll get Riff #5... if you haven't already. There are just not that many capital cities.
LegoWhoDoesNotWantViolinTeddyToBeMad
I'm NOT mad, Lego!! Just discombobulated....and now running off frantically to the next town over to Costco, before they close, after NOT being able to find my stupid cell phone anywhere.. This was a true 'sitcom moment', whereby, after tearing apart house and purse, I finally had to go across the st and ask my neighbor/friend to please DIAL the thing...and where was it? Upstairs in the pocket of a robe I have NO MEMORY of putting it in earlier this morning. Geez.... anyway, no time to work further on #1 now, but I appreciate all the new hints. Perhaps something will work out, but I've been through ALL the towns in both the 'M' states already, and nothing ever struck me as being a bunny name.. BUt I will try again.
DeleteRe the capitals: I know, there seem to be ONLY two that are spelled nearly the same, but the problem is, removing the last two letters of one, and tacking on the postal abbreviation does NOT give the other one. And no other pair seems to have any hope.
Oh, I should qualify: I was 'mad' above as in stir crazy, not 'angry' mad!
DeleteAnd if you move from bunnies to cats, then: When people see a cat's litter box they always say, “Oh, have you got a cat?” Just once I want to say, “No, it's for company!”
ReplyDeleteI almost fell off my chair laughing, ron. Thanks for making my Holy Saturday wholly happy.
DeleteLegoLitterPicker
Yes, I needed that laugh, too, Ron. Thanks!
DeleteStill don't have the Menu puzzle yet, and I only have the name of the "groundbreaking bunny" in Riff-Off #1(found it by accident, actually). The rest of it is quite difficult, IMHO. Any more good hints, Lego?(BTW I probably would've led with #6, and made #1 the last one, but that's just me.)
ReplyDeleteDid you see the hint to the Menu puzzle that I posted in my "March 31, 2018 at 2:32 PM" post, cranberry? The 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with a particular bunny consists of how a baby might address his mother followed by a fowl.
DeleteIn the FHS, each word in the headline is the type of word with which you are very familiar and good at creating. My answer on Wednesday will link to a YouTube of a foxtrot written by Irving Berlin.
LegoWhoDidNotWriteRiff#6UntilSaturdayNightLyingInBed
I'm relieved to say that finally, finally, finally, I think I have all the parts to Riff #1. That has to be one of THE hardest puzzles ever, IMHO. One of your prior hints up above had yielded the seven-letter word immediately, but then I was still stuck on the smaller town....although I did figure out the two-word/7-letter phrase, but this most recent hint confirmed it. I had tried to turn all that into a town, but didn't succeed until tonight (checking the population, although my list says slightly LESS than 200, not more.)
DeleteAnd after bunches of searching, I believe I came up with the groundbreaking bunny/larger town at long last, too. Why the proper solution never presented itself earlier, I don't understand. Sigh....at least, it's OVER!
Sounds like you persevered, VT. I need to re-evaluate my puzzle creation process, however, especially for these Riffing-Off-Shortz puzzles (which, briefly on Easter/April Fool's morn, I had feared would be things of the past!).
DeleteSolving puzzles ought to be enjoyable endeavor. It's never good when a solver says, "Sigh....at least, it's OVER!"
I will try to create more puzzles like Riff #6, fewer like Riff #1.
LegoRiffRaff
I'm sorry to make you feel bad, Lego. That wasn't my intention at all...I was just heaving a sigh of relief to myself, I guess! But you'd have to admit, I suppose, that we 'solvers' would think real bunny rabbits at this time of year especially, not what that puzzle turned out to be about.
DeleteLEGO.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that great link, ron. I had no idea about those etymologies, both which (aspirationally and ideally) apply perfectly to this blog. Pure serendipity!
DeleteLegoHopingToPutTogetherPuzzlesThatSolversCanPlayWell
EASTERN
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STERN
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OVER, PROUDEST, AND, SNAP, GRANDEST, EASTER, PHOTOGRAPHERS: All are words in Easter Parade
I tried to find a Steinem, ME or a Gloria, MA, etc., and gave up.
SALEM, MA > SA(essay)+LEMMA
GARY, IN > GAR YIN
I tried and failed to find an Illinois suburb ending in URA; found a lot of restaURAnts, though.
ALBANY, NY > ALBANY
AMES, IA > AMNESIA
DOWN THE HATCH > DOWN ON DUCKLINGS WHEN THEY HATCH
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Perhaps Imagine Entertainment can produce something that will be instrumental in solving the opioid crisis, and happy days will ensue.
The Erie Canal stretches from Buffalo to Albany. Despite Emma's bovine name, she is not a buffalo. Neither is the equine Sal an ass. Watch out for the bridge!! Why did Euclid go to all that trouble constructing it, when another, simpler solution exists? Maybe he couldn't overcome his natural human skepticism about using the same element twice, merely calling it something different.
Q.E.D.??
APPETIZER: EASTER + N = EASTERN => ASTERN => STERN => TERN (Song: TURN, TURN, TURN)
ReplyDeleteFAKE HISTORY SLICE: WORDS FROM "EASTER PARADE" song: DAN = AND; ROVE = OVER; POSTURED = PROUDEST; REPHOTOGRAPHS = PHOTOGRAPHERS; PANS = SNAP; DRAGNETS = GRANDEST; TEASER = EASTER., i.e. You'll be the GRANDEST lady in the EASTER parade...... AND [when they look you] OVER, I'll be the PROUDEST fellow ..... The PHOTOGRAPHERS will SNAP us...."
RIFF OFFS:
1. COSTUME + MAMA + HEN => Smaller town = MOUNT CHASE, ME , pop 198, which isn't greater than 200, though. [Hurrah, at long last!];
Larger town = MANSFIELD, MA [Jayne Marie Mansfield who was first DAUGHTER of a Playmate to be in magazine.]
2. SALEM, MA (LEMMA)
3. GARY, IN => GAR and YIN (YANG)
4. AURORA, IL => EURORAIL (pass)
5. COLUMBUS, IA => COLUMBIA, SC [I know Columbus, IA isn't a capital city, but I literally went through endless lists prior to knowing they had to be capitals.] And COLUMBUS, OH doesn't work.
6. AMES, IA => AMNESIA
DESSERT: "DOWN THE HATCH" => DOWN ON DUCKLINGS WHEN THEY HATCH
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteEASTERN
ASTERN
STERN
TERN
Menu
Anagrams of words used in "Easter Parade":
ROVE(OVER)
POSTURED(PROUDEST)
DAN(AND)
PANS(SNAP)
DRAGNET'S(GRANDEST)
TEASER(EASTER)
REPHOTOGRAPHS(PHOTOGRAPHERS)
Riff-Offs
1. (Jennifer)JACKSON(first black Playboy Bunny); JACKSON, ME; MAMA HEN(Was I missing something with this one?)
2. SALEM, MA(essay, lemma)
3. GARY, IN(gar, yin)
4. AURORA, IL(Eurorail)
5. ALBANY, NY(still Albany)
6. AMES, IA(amnesia)
Dessert
DOWN THE HATCH, "DOWN ON DUCKLINGS WHEN THEY HATCH"
I don't know how VT got what she did for #1, but it doesn't seem to add up, IMHO.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu:
Piece Of Cake Appetizer:
Addition of words by subtraction of letters
Add a letter to the end of something people celebrate, forming a new word that was also the name of an erstwhile airlines.
Delete the first letter of this new word to form a synonym of the result of “backpaddling”... in a canoe for instance.
Delete the first letter of this result to form the surname of a Trump pal.
Delete the first letter of this result to form a word for a bird that is a homophone of a word in the title of a song with lyrics based on the Bible.
What are these four words and the name for something people celebrate?
Answer:
Eastern, astern (def. #2), Stern, tern; Easter
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Fake History Slice
Karl and Quayle on the campaign trail
(Note: The following puzzle is based on fake history... that is, fake news from the past.)
Karl Rove was an Austin-based Republican campaign consultant to President George H. W. Bush as Bush was running for re-election in 1992. Bush fired Rove early that year for planting a negative story concerning internal dissatisfaction with the campaign's chief fundraiser. Rove was known as a dirty trickster who engineered talking points and messaging intended to mislead.
In May of 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle chided Murphy Brown, a TV sitcon character portrayed by Candice Bergen, for opting to have a child outside of wedlock. Getting less publicity, however, was Quayle’s criticism of a trailer for the 1987 movie “Dragnet,” which portrayed anti-pornography moral crusaders in a negative light.
A newspaper headline on a story documenting Rove’s and Quayle’s activities that year read:
Rove postured, Dan pans Dragnet’s teaser, rephotographs
What does this headline have to do with a particular holiday?
Answer:
The letters of each word in the headline can be rearranged to form a word in the song "Easter Parade."
Rove (over) postured (proudest), Dan (and) pans (snap) Dragnet's (grandest) teaser (Easter) rephotographs (photographers)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Levering Slices:
Bunnies gone postal!
ONE:
Name a small but not-at-all-well-known U.S. town (pop. > 8,000), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Name a smaller and even less-well-known U.S. town (pop. > 200), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Both towns are in New England.
The larger town is the name of a groundbreaking bunny. The letters in the smaller town combined with the four letters in the two postal codes can be rearranged to form a 7-letter word associated with bunnies and a 2-word 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with a particular bunny.
What are these two towns? What is the name of the groundbreaking bunny? What are the word associated with bunnies and the jocular title?
Answer:
Adams, Massachusetts; Mount Chase, Maine
Stephanie ADAMS is the first Playboy bunny to declare herself a lesbian; thus, she broke ground, so to speak.
A Playboy bunny wears a COSTUME
Hugh Hefner has referred to Playboy bunny Tina Jordan as a “MAMA HEN.”
MOUNT CHASE + ME + MA = COSTUME + MAMA HEN
TWO:
Name a moderately populous but well-known New England city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, begins with a pair of letters that sound like a part of the writing section of the SAT test followed by a mathematical term that might be an answer on the vocabulary section.
What city is it?
Answer:
Salem, Massachusetts
SALEMMA = SA (essay) + LEMMA
THREE:
Name a quite populous and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words: a fish and something shaped somewhat like a fish. What city is it?
Hints: A song was written about the city. The somewhat fish-shaped something is one half of a symbol.
Answer:
Gary, Indiana
Gar, yin
FOUR:
Name a large suburban U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Change the first letter in the city. This string of letters, reading from left to right, forms the former spelling of a token that allows tourists to make tracks all across a particular continent. What city is it?
Answer:
Aurora, Illinois (Eurorail Pass, former spelling of Eurail Pass)
FIVE:
Name a large and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Delete the last two letters of the city. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells a large and well-known U.S. city. What city is it?
Answer:
Albany, New York
Barflies And Ducklings Dessert:
My brooder’s peeper
Name a 3-word toast a bunch of brooding barflies might make. Add a “y” to the end of the second word and add the words “on ducklings when” after the first word to name something you might see in a brooder. What is the brooding barflies’ toast? What might you see in a brooder?
Answer:
"Down the hatch"
"Down on ducklings when they hatch"
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